Purple Fiddler Crab
Tubuca dussumieri
- Group: Crab
- For divers: safe
A purple fiddler crab of mangrove brackish water, where males wave one greatly enlarged claw to court females and warn off rivals. It lives in the intertidal mud, scuttling across the flats at low tide and ducking into burrows as the water returns.
Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Ocypodidae › Tubuca
Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 955313.
FAQ
- Is the Purple Fiddler Crab dangerous to divers?
- The Purple Fiddler Crab is harmless to divers.